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LOUIS GARDNER BOSTEDO, OF ATLANTIC, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO THE BOS TEDO PACKAGE AND CASH CARRIER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CASH AND PACKAGE CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1\To. 369,628, dated September 6, 1887.

Application filed August 2, 1886. Serial No. 209,781. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: form of track-support and car or basket. Fig. 50

Be it known that I, LoUIs GARDNER Bos- TEDO, of Atlantic, in the county of Cass and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash and Package Carriers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in package and cash carriers.

Hitherto in the package and cash carrying systems in use there has been a great amount of extra labor and expense caused by the necessity of constructing switches at intermediate stations on a line.

The object of my present invention is to provide a system in which the baskets or cars may be put on or taken off the main line directly, thus obviating the necessity of switches, and at the same time leaving the main line complete for the passage of cars to or from other stations, excepting the moment of putting on or taking off a car.

A further object is to make the system as free as possible from complicated parts, and to render the adjustment of a car or its removal from a track simple and capable of being accomplished in a very short time.

WVith these ends in view my invention consists in forwarding and return tracks provided with removable sections, and a car or basket elevator adapted to remove said sections when the car or basket is elevated and to replace the said sections when the car or basket is lowered.

My invention further consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts,

as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in perspective of a section of the tracks, showing the elevator tracksection in its lowcred position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showiug the elevator at a point between the forwarding and return tracks. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the elevator in its highest position. Fig. 4: is aview of the preferred shown.

5 is a cross-section through the elevator-guides at the top of one of the tracks, also showing a portion of the elevator; and Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of the end. of one section of track.

A represents the forwarding-track; B, the return-track. The tracks A and B are in the same vertical plane and sufficiently far apart at their nearest approach to admit of the free passage of the cash or package car or basket C, which depends from one or more supporting-wheels, 0. At each station is located an elevator-guide, D, which consists of one or more vertical rods or bars, preferably two, as The guide-rods D are located a short distance to one side of the tracks, and the portions of the tracks opposite them-win, a and b-are made removable from the main track. The ends of the main track adjacent to the ends of the removable track-sections a and b are connected by brackets E, which are preferably of rectangular form and are firmly secured to the guide-rods D on their sides opposite the tracks.

The removable section b in the return-track is constructed to rest normally in its position in the track with its upper face flush with the main track, and l at the same time be capable of being raised out of its position therein by pressure from the under side. Any well known or approved means may be employed to cause it to fulfill these conditions. For example, the ends of the removable section I) might be grooved, as shown atf, Fig. 6, the grooves being gradually contracted as they extend toward the bottom of the track, and the ends of the removable section b be shaped to register with the said grooves.

The removable section a in the forwardingtrack is conveniently provided with a pair of laterally-extending arms, a, attached thereto at or near its ends, the said arms being pivotally secured in the ends of the bracket E, thereby allowing the section a to swing upwardly and over out of the plane of the main track A, as shown in Fig. 3. The removable section a is constructed to rest normally with its upper face flush with the face of the main G, provided with four arms, 9, two of which loosely grasp one of the guide-rods and the other two the other guide-rod at points sufliciently far apart to enable the frame to slide freely on the guide-rods without any liability of becoming set by binding. In order to admit of their sliding freely past the points where the brackets E are secured, the socketbearings in the ends of the grasping-arms g are opened or cutaway on their sides opposite the track, as shown at g in Fig. 5.

' To the face of the elevator-supporting frame G is pivotally secured an inverted-T-shaped or .threearmed auxiliary supporting-frame, H. The frame His pivoted to the lower central portion of the frame G, and is allowed a limited tilting movement, enough to enable it to conform to the slant of either the forwarding or returning track, by means of elongated slots h, formed in its arms, through which studs or pins h, set in the frame G, extend.

To the auxiliary frame H are secured a pair of arms, I, reaching out to the vertical plane of the tracks, and to the ends of the arms is secured the elevator or supplementary tracksection K. The elevator track-section K corresponds in length to each of the track-sections at and b, and its ends are so shaped that it will pass freely through the opening left by the removal of the track-section b. A pair of diagonal stay-rods, t, lead from the side of the section K or from the ends of the arms I to the upper portion of the auxiliary frame H.

A track'seotion lifter, L, is secured to the elevator-frame G above the elevator track-section K and in the vertical plane of the tracks. The lifter Lis conveniently secured to the elevator-frame by a pair of laterally-extending arms, M, and it is located at such a distance above the elevator track-section K as to admit of the free passage of the car-supporting wheel. The said lifterL is provided with a pair of upwardly-extending pins, Z, which are adapted to engage corresponding sockets in the track-section b when the elevator is raised, and thereby lift the said track-section squarely from its position.

The elevator is conveniently raised by means of an operating-cord, O, which extends from its point of attachment on the elevator-frame upwardly and over one or more pulleys, N, and thence downwardly within convenient reach of the operator.

When the elevator is not in use,it rests in a convenient position below the two tracks, and the latter are complete, as shown in Fig. 1, and cars to and from the oashiers desk may pass this station without any hinderance.

When it is desired to send a package or cash, the car is placed on the elevator track-section K and the elevator raised until the face of the section K is flush with the main track A, as shown in Fig. 3. In its upward progress the track-section b is lifted from its position by the lifter L, as shown in Fig. 2, and when it reaches the upper track the track-section a is swung out of position and replaced by the elevator tracksection K. At the same moment the section K is tilted by any suitable device to conform to the grade of the track A, and the car starts on its passage to the cashiers desk. The elevator is then lowered and the tracks left complete, the section a falling into position by gravity, and. the section I) being left in position by the lifter until the car is returned, when the elevator will be raised until its tracksection is flush with the face of the track B,

and when the car rolls onto it and .is stopped by a suitable abutment or brake the elevator with car thereon is lowered and the package or cash, or both, delivered.

An approved form of track-support, consisting of a pair of upright rods, P,with skeleton brackets 10 secured thereto, is shown in Fig. 4, and forms the subject of pending application of Horatio Thomas, filed August 14, 1886, Serial No. 210,910; but other forms might be employed.

The three-armed or inverted-T-shaped frame might also be replaced by a circular or angular shaped plate. The elevator constructed essentially as herein described might also be applied to a single track adapted to answer for both a forwarding and returning truck.

Having fully described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination,with a forwardingtraek and a return-track, located one above the other and provided with movable track-sections at each station, of an elevator adapted to raise and lower the car and remove and replace the track-sections, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a forwarding and a return track, each provided with a movable track-section, of a car-elevator provided with a track-section lifter and with a tilting tracksection, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination,with a forwardingtrack and a return-track, each provided with a removable track-section, of a car-elevator provided with a track-section litter, and a tracksection adapted to replace the removed tracksection in both the forwarding and return tracks, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination,with a forwarding-track having a track-section hinged thereto, and a return-track having a track-section removabl y secured thereto, of a car-elevator adapted to remove and replace the track-sections in its upward and downward passages, respectively, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, with the forwarding and return tracks, each provided with a removable track-section, and a car-elevator guide located near the removable sections, of

section lifter secured to the main supportingframe, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrlbing witnesses.

LOUIS GARDNER BOSTEDO.

Witnesses: H. B. PARKER,

H. L. PINNEY. 

